The album arrives over a year after the devastating attack at her Manchester concert in 2017 that killed 22 people. “I’ve always just been like a shiny, singing, 5-6-7-8, sexy-dance…sexy thing. But now it’s like, ‘OK … issa bop — but issa message,” she told The FADER. “Issa bop but also has chunks of my soul in it. Here you go. Also, I cried 10 hundred times in the session writing it for you. Here is my bleeding heart, and here is a trap beat behind it.’ There’s definitely some crying-on-the-dancefloor stuff on this one.”

Grande channeled her emotions into a 15-track album that includes the sunny Pharrell-produced “blazed,” the dreamy “R.E.M,” and the empowering anthem “God is a Woman.” There’s also a track called “pete davidson,” named after her fiancé. “I know you know that you’re my soulmate,” she sings on the tender interlude.